Descriptions of weather in this story function as a kind of choral commentary, setting the tone for sections and scenes.
Or if you've got the Guardian's iPhone app, you can use the "Send us a story" function at the bottom of the homescreen to tell us more.
Malcolm has written that the word "objection", uttered in a courtroom, "betokens the story-spoiling function of the law", but in the cultural realm – in criticism and biography, for example – an unspoilt orthodoxy all too often reigns.
Suddenly I cared only about where it and real life intersected, rather than how the story functioned as a discrete piece of art.
Her stories function as unintentional time capsules, skeptical of technology when they can't sidestep it entirely, apprehensive of, rather than mesmerized by, mass culture.
In that story, as a function of their gratitude, the slaves paid homage through song, dance and dress, the native and the West African traditions conjoining, a marriage that would help give birth to the music of New Orleans.
But, when we remember that our story is a function of our thoughts, most specifically the thoughts we have about ourselves, we can be empowered to consciously transform not just our "story," but our life as a whole.
"The funder, being conservative, thinks the 'no differences' story is a function of small Ns [sample sizes] and snowball samples [a non-probability sampling technique]," Regnerus wrote in the email.
The stories function surprisingly well without Serling's audible narration, and the graphics are mostly literal interpretations of the screenplays.
What do these observations reveal about the function of story?
